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Originally Posted by Mr.Puff
Haha, I remember all of the tablets from back in the early 2000's. Either the world was not ready yet, or we needed better screens, operating systems, battery life, etc. As I recall the old soft screens would scratch like nobody's biznis. These new glass screens will only scratch if something harder than quartz gets to them. Even steel won't scratch glass  .
Tablets through time! Very abridged  . |
Yeah, the "Gorilla Glass" is a nice step fwd, for tablets. I'm fairly certain that my wife's old, HP tablet has something similar. --it's pretty tough, what ever it is.
Display
brightness is still a problem for most all back-lit tablets. --The e-ink eReaders wouldn't be so popular if the color screens could be easily read out doors.
Kudos to Apple for marketing the crap out of the tablet cmptr. Although, from what I've seen, people are finding the novelty of the iPad to be wearing thin. (Yes, I know there are fan-boys who still sleep w/ theirs). I see iPad being handed down to entertain kids on long flights, or on road trips. I expect that this has a bit to do with the phone OS, but more to do with the PIA input. That is, typing on one is awful, and a fat finger is hardly a precise pointing device.
...just look at navigating this forum. Say you want to select the second page, of a multi-paged thread. ...that '2' is tiny, compared to the field/area that a finger will touch. ...SO, lobster-claw open the area, and then select. ...That's called a work-around, because the input-precision just isn't there.
I'm sure that if Apple owned the internet, that every field would be fat-finger friendly. And that very little information/selection would be on any given page.
But. . .it's not. (thankfully)
That's why Windows tablets are still being used to get work done. They have been designed to have precision input. One can easily select small fields. One can actually hand-write on the screen as if you were using a fine point pen on paper. (The iPad is like a Sharpie, at best) And, the Win Tab's make great work of converting that hand-writing to text - just like this post. (Would hate to type this on a cramped iPad virtual keyboard)